Avigdor Lieberman acknowledges that he wants the State of Israel to remain a "Zionist, Jewish and democratic state". In the same breath, he suggests there is nothing undemocractic about requiring Arabs to take an oath of allegiance to Israel.
With the audacity that only an extremist can muster, Lieberman then compares this oath to a U.S. citizen`s oath of allegiance to the United States. There is one glaring defect in Lieberman`s argument, however: the United States is a secular and non-ethnic state. By contrast, because Lieberman`s Israel is a Zionist state, then allegiance to Israel would imply allegiance to Zionism. And that is not anything that a truly democratic state would oblige its Arab citizens to espouse. |
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